-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:29:03PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Manolis Ragkousis <manolis...@gmail.com> writes:
[...] > > Also from my understanding not using madvise() ends up in slower > > performance but it doesn't create problems to the program, right? > > Some programs for Guile 2.2 may take advantage of the dynamically > expandable stacks, because it allows programs to written in a more > natural way. Such programs may in some cases temporarily allocate a lot > of stack space. If this memory can never be reclaimed on Hurd, that may > cause problems for some programs. This would at least suggest having a way to query whether madvise is available, through some introspection (giving the program a chance to adapt its behavior)? Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlkxJFYACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbyNgCeJPtTvHeBJhIgiDHcIfip7aWt e9kAn3fMsRpzS99+e0szQ7cuGo+X8Q/K =9/ui -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
